One day in Montevideo, Uruguay
A day through Montevideo’s best-known sights that lie close together: Legislative Palace, Basílica Nuestra Señora del Carmen and National Museum of Natural History. 3 stops, about 1 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.
The route
- Legislative PalacePalace · On the map
- Basílica Nuestra Señora del CarmenTemple or shrine · 0.3 km on from Legislative Palace · On the map

- National Museum of Natural HistoryMuseum · 0.7 km on from Basílica Nuestra Señora del Carmen · On the map

3 stops, 1.4 km on foot along the streets: about 18 min of walking.
More for Montevideo
- Things to do in Montevideo, Uruguay · 40 places to see, led by Admiral Graf Spee and Legislative Palace
Photo credits
- Legislative Palace: Coolcaesar, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Basílica Nuestra Señora del Carmen: Hoverfish, CC BY-SA 3.0
- National Museum of Natural History: Coquimbo58, CC BY-SA 4.0
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.
Good to know
- Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
- The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
- Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.